Hate Sells category archive
True Believers 0
Farron, sitting in for David, discusses an article by Chancey DeVega discussing Trump loyalists fealty to their dear leader.
Read the article that Farron discusses.
A Failed State? 0
Writing at the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock is less than optimistic. A nugget:
And even now, almost half of our citizens believe that the last presidential election was fraudulent. There is no verifiable evidence that that’s true, yet, because it’s the claim of the election’s loser — that same con-artist — millions of his followers choose to believe it.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
I know someone with relatives in Hungary, relatives who just happen to be Jewish.
I know from them that Orban is as bad as bad can be.
Addicted to Rage 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jeremy Sherman explores a behavior which he has dubbed “maladdiction,” an addiction to rage. Methinks he may be onto something.
Here’s a bit:
The more outraged we are at others, the more righteous we feel; the more righteous we feel, the more we feel duty-bound to be outraged at others. One can really rev out on that vicious cycle. It’s highly addictive.
Call it “maddiction” an addiction to getting mad for the self-purifying sensation. Maddiction is the source of common undiagnosed madness, a mental illness because, though it makes one feel purged of sin, it’s an indulgence in the greatest violation of all: Ignoring reality.
I commend the entire piece to your attention. I think it offers a perspective on dis coarse discourse.
Devolution 0
Writing at The Roanoke Times, Professor Robert Strong is not sanguine. A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
If you wonder why there’s so much fuss over critical race theory, which nobody outside of academia had heard of until a couple of months ago, the answer is simple.
To paraphrase Jack Nicholson, “They can’t handle the truth,” so they want to look away, look away, look away, to Dixieland.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
And for the “they can dish it out but they can’t take it” dept. . . .
Aside:
This is not to imply that I endorse confronting lying racist mongers of hate on their days off, but, really, the irony.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
He politely “stood his ground” by shooting a woman who was running away in the back.
Counter-Factual 0
Will Bunch notes that it has been 52 years since Americans landed on the moon–a feat made possible by science, Science, after all, is the pursuit of fact. He considers why so many Americans now reject science (think vaccines, for example). A nugget (emphasis added):
Indeed, wealthy capitalists and the politicians who aided the backlash and rode it to victories — Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Ronald Reagan — were so successful that distrust in science and the conspiracy theories that flow from that distrust now spread as virally as COVID-19 itself, among everyday folks on social media sites like Facebook. Albeit with an occasional booster shot from the most cynical media celebrities like Fox’s Tucker Carlson.
I commend his article to your attention.
Merchants of Fear 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier explains.
A Woke-Up Call 0
Rich white folks want their money back from a Catholic school because it exercised what was once known as “Christian charity.” (The plaintiffs say that they want only a return to traditional Catholic values, which, I guess in their view, do not include awareness of injustice, hate, and bigotry.)
Here’s a bit of the news story; follow the link for the rest (emphasis added).
Then, as she marked up the 45-page filing by philanthropists Anthony and Barbara Scarpo against Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa, she decided someone needed to respond.
The suit, filed June 26, alleged that her old school had “become woke” by focusing too much on diversity and equity, and had strayed from Catholic teaching. The Scarpos demanded refunds of donations and tuition. They said the academy should stop billing itself as a Catholic institution.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Know-Nothings Redux 0
The editors of The Roanoke Times paired this image with a column by Leonard Pitts, Jr., who points out that
So how did it become this sudden four-alarm fire in the house of democracy? The answer is depressingly simple. It is this year’s War on Christmas. It’s sharia law, gay wedding cake, and New Black Panthers. Which is to say, it is this year’s spur by which the white right, more easily stampeded than a herd of cattle by a lightning strike, is prodded to feel resentful, frightened and besieged — and vote accordingly.
Follow the link for the rest.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Dan Patrice suggests that renting out the National Guard to the highest bidder is not a good thing. A snippet (emphasis added):
Follow the link for context.
Do the Math 0
This doesn’t add up. The protest is in no way based on reality, but it does show how susceptible some persons are to right-wing lies and race-baiting.
We are a society of stupid.
And of the hate-full.